Concept information
Preferred term
97CCmetamorphoses of female persons into mammals
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- 97CC1 Atalante and Hippomenes changed into lions: when they profane the temple of Cybele, Atalante and Hippomenes are changed into lions by the goddess (Ovid, Metamorphoses X 689)
- 97CC2 Callisto changed into a bear: Juno changes Callisto, who is attending the young Arcas (her son by Jupiter), into a bear
- 97CC4 Galanthis changed into a weasel: Juno changes Galanthis into a weasel for having deceived her about Alcmene's labour (Ovid, Metamorphoses IX 306)
- 97CC5 Hecuba changed into a dog: while being stoned, Hecuba is changed into a dog (Ovid, Metamorphoses XIII 567)
- 97CC6 Io changed into a cow: to avoid detection by Juno, Jupiter changes Io into a cow (Ovid, Metamorphoses I 611)
- 97CC7 Minyas' daughters changed into bats: having aroused Bacchus' anger by weaving instead of worshipping him, the daughters of Minyas, Leuconoe (Leucippe), Alcithoe and Arsippe, are changed into bats by the god (Ovid, Metamorphoses IV 399)
- 97CC8 Ocyroe changed into a mare: when she is foretelling the fates of her father Chiron and the young Aesculapius, Ocyroe is changed into a mare (Ovid, Metamorphoses II 657)
- 97CC9 other metamorphoses of female persons into mammals
- 97CC3 women of Cos changed into cows: when the women of Cos insult Juno in their anger about Hercules driving Geryon's cattle through their fields, they are changed into cows (Ovid, Metamorphoses VII 363)
Subject
- ancient history
- animal
- classical antiquity
- history
- mammal
- metamorphosis
- mythology
- transformation
- woman
Notation
- 97CC
In other languages
URI
http://iconclass.org/97CC
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